Re: ALPS stop worked between 2.6.13 and 2.6.16

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 3/29/06, Romano Giannetti <romanol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:12:26PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On 3/27/06, Romano Giannetti <romanol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Udev is 054 (as per Mandriva 2005). Is that the culprit?
> >
> > [~/linux] grep udev Documentation/Changes
> > o  udev                   071                     # udevinfo -V
> > ...
>
> Bad news... I tried to upgrade udev to 088, but evidently this is not a
> trivial task. I had to reinstall back 054 to have the system working ok (I
> had a bunch of
>
> SYS: Mar 29 18:20:11 rukbat udevsend[17819]: unable to connect to event
> daemon, try to call udev directly
>
> but then nothing happened, no devices etc. So evidently the new udev is
> unable to cope with the old and maybe buggy Mandriva 2005 configuration[1].
> I unfortunately have no time to desentangle the dependency mess, so it's
> time to stop testing new kernels... unless anyone can point me to a "howto".
>

I am sorry to hear that. You might want to check on the hotplug list,
maybe someone there could offer you some guidance. To tell you the
truth I am still running with static /dev...

--
Dmitry
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